Is You.com free to use?

Yes. The consumer search engine and chat are free, and developers get a free tier of 100 Web Search API queries a day via MCP plus $10 in signup credit, with $90 more after verifying an account.

What happened to You.com Pro and Max?

They are no longer published: the pricing page now lists API plans only, reflecting the company's shift toward selling search and research infrastructure to developers. Older reviews citing $20 Pro and $200 Max subscriptions describe the retired consumer offer.

How is the API billed?

Per call, whatever the call returns — a Web Search call yielding 1 result costs the same as one yielding 100. The Contents endpoint is the exception, billed per page returned.

Do You.com API credits expire?

Free signup credits are valid for 60 days. Credits bought on a paid plan do not expire as long as the account stays active.

You.com

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AI search and assistant with cited answers

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You.com 是什么？

You.com is an AI search engine and assistant founded in 2020 by Richard Socher, Salesforce's former chief scientist, and Bryan McCann. It answers questions with cited, real-time web results, and it lets users switch between models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others inside a single chat instead of committing to one provider. Alongside ordinary search it offers agent modes: a Research agent that reads multiple sources before answering, custom agents built for repeated tasks, and ARI, a deep-research agent that produces long, fully sourced reports.

The company now sells much of that machinery to developers. Its Web Search, Contents and Research APIs plug live search and multi-step research into other products at per-call prices, joined by an MCP server and an inference router for open-weight models. The consumer search and chat remain free to use, while the published pricing has shifted entirely to the API side: free MCP access for prototyping, pay-as-you-go for production, and enterprise contracts with zero data retention. You.com fits people who want search-grounded answers and model choice in one place, and teams building search into their own AI products.

核心功能

AI answers with inline citations drawn from a real-time web index
Model picker spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other providers in one chat
Research agent and ARI deep-research reports with sources
Custom agents that users build for repeated tasks
Web Search, Contents and Research APIs priced per call
MCP server for connecting agents to live search
Inference router for running open-weight models through one API

如何使用 You.com

1
Search or chat for free
Go to you.com and ask a question — answers arrive with citations, and no account is needed for basic use.
2
Pick a model or agent
Switch between frontier models in the chat, or run the Research agent or ARI when a question needs a multi-source report.
3
Build a custom agent
Configure an agent with your own instructions and sources for tasks you repeat, such as monitoring a topic.
4
Or build on the API
Grab an API key from the pricing page — signup includes $10 of credit, $90 more after verification — and call the Web Search or Research endpoints.

You.com 价格

套餐	价格	周期
Free	$0	per day allowanceConsumer search and chat at no cost; developers get 100 Web Search API queries per day through the MCP server with no API key, account or credit card, plus $10 signup credit ($90 more after account verification)
Web Search API	$5	per 1k callsPay as you go with no minimums or platform fee. Full web and news results with highlights and extraction; the Contents endpoint returns clean page text at $1 per 1k pages, and the Answers endpoint is $5 per 1k calls
Research API	$12	per 1k callsMulti-step cited research in five effort tiers: Lite $12, Standard $50, Deep $100, Exhaustive $450 and Frontier $1,200 per 1k calls; the Finance Research variant runs $110-$500 per 1k calls
Enterprise	Custom	contractZero data retention, SOC 2 and DPA support, custom QPS limits and dedicated capacity, SLA-backed support; volume pricing above 1M calls per month